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| | An 1876 history of St. Clair County, Illinois, its agriculture, industry, pioneers, and towns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | It is reproduced here in its entirety and provides a glimpse of county life with notes about agriculture, breweries, distilleries, grains and fruits, mills, mining, newspapers, religious denominations, schools, transportation, and watercourses. |
 | | At a Convention of citizens held in Belleville on the 20th of May, 1876, in accordance with the recommendation of Congress and of the Governor, a committee of twenty-five was appointed to arrange for the proper celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence. |
 | | This is found to be inaccurate, as later figures give a total of 6215 acres of orchards in the county. |
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